Our man on the Vancouver Canucks beat C-Mac tells us players on the cusp last year, especially Keith Ballard, Cody Hodgson and Victor Oreskovich need to step up. This should be another promising and exciting run to the Stanley Cup, but whether the team has the patience to stick with such plans remains to be seen.

With NHL veterans Ryan Kesler and Mason Raymond out to start the year for the Vancouver Canucks BC beat writer Richard Hodges breaks down the bevy of Canucks players including vet Marco Sturm, trying to crack the 2011 opening day roster for the Stanley Cup runners up.